Crazy May Days--Part 2

You may remember I did a similar post to this last week. This weeks are just as interesting, funny and silly:

• 10-Mothers day, Lupus day (I've seen this affect my family-interesting stuff), Windmill day
• 11-Eat What You Want day (I didnt make this up)
• 12-Limerick day, National Nutty Fudge day
• 13-Receptionists day (Woot woot! One of my all time favorite jobs!), Root Canal Appreciation day
• 14-Nothing listed
  
• 15-International Day of Families, National Chocolate Chip day (gotta admit I haven't seen this before), National Safety Dose day
• 16-National Sea Monkey Day
• 17- NASCAR day, World Telecommunications day

Will you be making something chocolate chip-y on Friday? What sorta things do you throw your chocolate chips in? Brace yourselves. When I make chocolate chip cookies I make a pan or two without the chips and then add some for the rest of my family. I'm just not a fan I guess. I know one gal (coughBrodicough) who likes her cookie/chip ratio to be 1:1, yup 1 cookie:1 chip. What about you?

Save Second Base aka Save the Ta Ta's

In celebration of my mom who was diagnosed with breast cancer 11 years ago (and again a couple years after that--she's now in remission) I did the Race for the Cure today with a bunch of FANTASTIC ladies. Gotta love great friends.

At the end of the race I found my super hubs who despite his hatred of large crowds (and this was a doozy!) braved them just for me and brought the three kiddos down to see me finish my first 5k. Sure do love this guy.

Random Ramblings

I'm so excited for my first random Friday post. I love seeing these on my friends blogs. I will coin mine Random Ramblings.

This is the curse of the short people. Or at least people who don't like to hem their pants. Funny thing is, it's just on my left pant leg.

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Sometimes when I take the garbage out it makes me anxious when I see how full it is. Especially because garbage day is Tuesday and sometimes, like yesterday it is already pretty much there. I start getting really nervous we won't be able to make it a few more days and that we won't fit it all into the can. I think I have issues.

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Saw this at the grocery store today. Forked over big bucks just to show ya. Really? Cause Bologna is SOOO popular that someone thought, "You know what kids would love?! Bologna gum! It'll be a HUGE hit!" (However I gotta admit that I love saying it phonetically.)

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Yesterday my daughter brought home an egg she picked out of a hens all by herself (at the farm where she takes horseback riding lessons from). I always sorta thought I'd be like this but I can't bring myself to eat it--because I know where it came from--and it wasn't the grocery store. I'm not sure I can even cook it up for her to eat. She wants to eat it tomorrow, I may have to ask hubby to step in.

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This is how my kids vacuum. You hold the hose and I'll pick up tiny morsels from the floor and feed it in. Hey, it kept them entertained for literally 10 minutes while I unloaded and loaded the dishwasher.

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I am so AOCD that I just spent 10 minutes on website called 'words that start with r' so I could come up with something for my title to go along with 'random'. You know you love it. It just sings to you right?

Cranberry [Wo]Man

I ran across this little gem of a product about a month ago. I. Am. In. Love. Thats probably obvious since I cleaned out the stores supply last week (which doesnt include the 2 I have in my car and the 3 I have upstairs in my bedroom). Let me introduce you to Ocean Spray Cranberry flavored drink mix.

Since I am currently a member of good old Weight Watchers (to be honest it's kinda hard to admit but there ya go blogger land) I hardly ever drink ANY juice--I just HATE drinking my calories. I've limited myself to Water, Crystal Light (my fav flavor is strawberry, orange bannana), and my other ambrosia Diet Coke. When I saw that I could add Cranberry flavor back into the mix I was a bit skeptical. Watered down cranberry? Ewww. No seriously though, it doesnt taste watered down, it tastes...mmm like heaven. (Ok now who's gonna invent frenchfries that are only 5 cal a serving?? C'mon people the cranberry man did it!)

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Joke of the Day Stand-Up Comedy Free Online Games

Just in case you haven't ever seen fun little things like this before here's how simple it really is.



And you should most definitely check out this today. Who doesn't love free books?

Free Pearls

My friend Sunny suggested that we all go see Praying for Parker's blog. Praying for Parker has a coupon for this totally free strand of Freshwater Pearls (gotta go get 'em before this Sat). I picked mine up this morning and was so excited to put 'em on! Go check out Parkers blog! Spread the word to your friends!

Wanna meet an author? Me too!!

A few weeks ago I won this fabulous book by Sydney Salter from Brodi Ashtons blog and really enjoyed reading it! I got it right before our Spring break trip and it kept me very entertained on our long driving trip and lazy vacation days.

When I got home I emailed Sydney(I hope she doesnt mind I refer to her like we're BFF's),who is totally sweet and very kind and she said she'd love to come to a book club gathering to visit and discuss and play. So guess what? I'm gonna throw a party! Let me know if you're interested in coming so I can make sure to keep you posted. It'll most likely be held in Salt Lake County, Utah. (Specific date and time tba--It'll be after May 17th though.)

I'm also gonna give away a copy of My Big Nose to a random commenter on this post. I'll announce the winner next Sunday May 10th sometime after 12noon. (I'll use the completely accurate method of my kids pulling a name out of a bowl.)

More about the book:
It’s the end of junior year, and summer is about to begin. The Summer of Passion, to be exact, when Jory Michaels plans to explore all the possibilities of the future--and, with any luck, score a boyfriend in the process. But Jory has a problem. A big problem. A curvy, honking, bumpy, problem in the form of her Super Schnozz, the one thing standing between Jory and happiness. And now, with the Summer of Passion stretched before her like an open road, she's determined for Super Schnozz to disappear. Jory takes a job delivering wedding cakes to save up for a nose job at the end of the summer; she even keeps a book filled with magazine cutouts of perfect noses to show the doctor. But nothing is ever easy for accident-prone Jory--and before she knows it, her Summer of Passion falls apart faster than the delivery van she crashes. In her hilarious and heartbreaking debut novel, Sydney Salter delivers a story about broadening your horizons, accepting yourself, and finding love right under your nose.

Crazy Days

Found a fun calendar that lists all the real, crazy, silly, goofy, dumb, etc days of the year. I figure it'd be a fun addition to my blog so be on the lookout in my sidebar for that!

Some noteables from this week (but not limited to):
1-Friday: Amtrak Day, Mother Goose Day, No Pants Day, Tuba Day
2-Saturday: Free Comic Book Day, National Scrapbooking day
3-Sunday: Graden Meditation Day, Lumpy Rug Day, National Two Different Colored Shoes Day, Paranormal Day
4-Monday: Respect for Chickens Day
5-Tuesday: Cartoonists Day, Cinco de Mayo, National Teacher Day
6-Wednesday: No Diet Day, No Homework Day, Nurses Day
7-Thursday: National Day of Reason
8-Friday: No Socks Day
9-Saturday: National Babysitters Day, Stay Up All Night Day, National Miniature Golf Day

What do you think, will you participate in any of these celebrations? I have my site set on a few. If you do something fun be sure to get a picture and leave a comment for me (or email it to me)! I'd love to do a post at the end of the month with some great highlights!!